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“If we become aware that someone is sending thoughts of ill will in our direction, we do not argue with the apparent reality of…

— Donna Goddard

In the motive lies the good or ill.

— Samuel Johnson

I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.

— Graham Greene

We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely…

— Anonymous

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.

— Anonymous

Gaining insight into one's underlying motives, it seems, is more like a belief conversion than a self-discovery process

— Albert Bandura

The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because.

— Victor Hugo

“Whereas most people automatically anticipate the consequences of their actions, automatically feel shame for unkind deeds, automatically understand why they should persist in the…

— James Blair

Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

— Miguel de Unamuno